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Tu pourrais (légitimement) penser que si ce sont les États-Unis qui « créent » une opposition syrienne, alors cette opposition ne serait pas très légitime. Évidemment ça n’est pas comme cela que pensent les étatsuniens :
►http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/us/politics/in-behind-scene-blows-and-triumphs-sense-of-clinton-future.html

In an interview last week, Mrs. Clinton declined to comment on her role in the arms debate and emphasized other steps the United States had taken. “We have worked assiduously, first to create some kind of legitimate opposition,” she said.

The Uses of Paul Farmer » Counterpunch
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/17/the-uses-of-paul-farmer

(Pour ce critique, Paul Farmer se serait rapproché des Clinton et se serait par conséquent ramolli.)

Farmer had always been a sharp critic of the international community’s treatment of #Haiti.

Eventually I asked him a blunt question: “Do you think the administration here was under pressure from international forces to fight the increase in the minimum wage?”

(...) Farmer stammered a little bit, said he didn’t know, and subtly changed the subject.

One reader left an ominous comment on the interview. “No disrespect to Dr. Farmer, as I believe he is sincere,” he wrote, “but he is now a part of the ‘machine’ that essentially drives Haiti.”

*

Two years later, WikiLeaks provided me and two colleagues with a window into that machine: 1,918 secret diplomatic cables from the US Embassy in Haiti.

The cables proved beyond any doubt what had seemed obvious. Behind the scenes, American officials had mounted a full-scale assault on the minimum wage increase, financing studies against it and pressuring the president to oppose it.

If Farmer had “engaged in the hard process of discernment” – an idea he promotes in his book Haiti After the Earthquake – the answer to my question would have been “Yes, of course.”

It was strange. In the past, Farmer wrote disapprovingly of plans to give Haitians low-paying jobs in textile factories – what many consider to be sweatshops. Either he had changed his mind or was holding his tongue.

#santé #choléra

Kurds and FSA Fight as Clinton’s Efforts to Build New Government Stir Hornet’s Nest
►http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/?p=16611

The brewing war between Syria’s Kurds and Arabs may not wait until Assad falls. The murder of Nujeen Dirik, the 42 year old Kurdish female militia leader from Aleppo, by the FSA is likely to spark revenge killings. The FSA in Aleppo lured Dirik into a trap by making a deal to exchange bodies of the dead and kidnapped supporters. When Dirik led a group of Kurdish fighters to the anti-regime insurgents to make the hand-off, she was snatched. A week later she was killed by the FSA rather than traded.

Dirik headed a militia unit charged with protecting the Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maqsud districts of Aleppo. This was a clear show of force by the FSA meant to demonstrate to the Kurds not to try to intimidate FSA insurgents. The Kurds may suck up this defeat and choose not to launch a war of vengeance, but it is unlikely that they will not make a move to reassurt their control over the Ashrafiyeh neighborhood that was penetrated by FSA troops last week.

#ALGERIE #Algeria Mme #Clinton chez les géniteurs de l’ #AQMI
►http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article1500

Les #otages ou le #Mali : la #responsabilité se négocie

Les forces réactionnaires en Algérie collées à l’ #islamisme ne désirent aucune solution à la situation actuelle du #Nord-Mali. Et les despotes qui monopolisent le pouvoir depuis que le pays est indépendant, composent dubitativement avec ces connivences ouvertes et claires avec le #terrorisme dans un pays où cette « violence » persiste. La tradition, où coalisent nationalisme et religion, joue à la tergiversation...

Voir en ligne : Notre dossier TOUS NOS #ARTICLES pour AQMI et Crise du Mali.

AUB : Reflections on its Present and Future
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/aub-reflections-its-present-and-future

The administration decided to honor Shalala, whose eventful record as Clinton’s Health Secretary is available to anyone with access to the internet - from her imposing inhumane sanctions on the Iraqi people to her frantic defense of Israel and its universities, from which she has received three honorary degrees.

En plus de cette protestation pour contrer les tentatives de normalisation par la direction de l’Université américaine de Beyrouth, l’article dénonce des évolutions récentes de l’université.

AP: Clinton says military action in #Syria would require international support, including #Russia -►http://goo.gl/vCyvC

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Clinton says Assad must cede all power in #Syria transition ►http://reut.rs/L3THDs

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Clinton says Assad must cede all power in #Syria transition ►http://reut.rs/L3THDs

MahirZeynalov
Russia says wants Syria meeting including Iran. Clinton says hard to imagine inviting a country [Iran] that is managing violence in Syria.

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Clinton cool to Russia’s Syria proposal, “hard to imagine inviting a country stage-managing Assad regime’s assault on its people” -RTRS

AlArabiya_Eng
#BreakingNews: Clinton calls on China, Russia to be ’part of the solution’ in Syria

Best and Worst Design: 50 U.S. State Websites
►http://designshack.net/articles/inspiration/best-and-worst-design-50-u-s-state-websites

Today we’re following that up with a similar discussion on official state websites. Which U.S. states have the absolute best looking websites and which have sites that look like they haven’t been updated since Clinton was in the Oval Office?

Correction: Yolo County Superior Court Judge Dave Rosenberg / Yolo County Superior Court Judge Dan Maguire / Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Clinton Parish

In TLR’s recently published article concering Yolo County Judge Dave Rosenberg inappropriate conduct (see ►http://tinyurl.com/cbx26cb ), we erroneously stated “Judge Rosenberg also promised to retaliate against Parish and issued a thinly veiled threat against him. This sort of phlegm tends to backfire. It flies back in the face of the expectorant.”

In fact, what we should have written is “Judge Rosenberg also promised to retaliate against Parish by issuing a thinly veiled threat against him, to wit: This sort of phlegm tends to backfire. It flies back in the face of the expectorant.”

Clinton denies America is Islamophobic
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/clinton-denies-america-islamophobic

Clinton, visiting the world’s third largest Muslim-majority country Bangladesh, was asked by a student at a public forum about perceptions that the United States was against Islam.

“That hurts me so much,” Clinton said. “It’s a painful perception to hear about and I deeply regret that anyone believes that or propagates it.”

«That hurts me so much», je crois que je vais m’en faire un t-shirt.

Clinton Says Talks Continue Over Egyptian Trial of Americans - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/world/middleeast/united-states-and-egypt-in-talks-to-end-prosecution-of-americans.html

Under new legislation adopted by Congress late last year, American aid to Egypt cannot be delivered until certain requirements are met. Officials in Washington say the criminal case would almost certainly prevent that. In the case of $1.3 billion in military assistance, including arms sales, the aid can be delivered only if Mrs. Clinton and the State Department certify that Egypt is adopting basic democratic reforms, including freedom of speech and association.

Comme le remarque Angry Arab, c’est incroyable : les Américains ont voté une loi conditionnant l’aide américaine aux réformes démocratiques en Égypte, seulement après que les Égyptiens ont renversé la dictature soutenue à bout de bras par les Américains. Laquelle dictature a toujours reçu l’aide américaine, sans qu’elle soit jamais conditionnée au respect des principes démocratiques (tu m’étonnes…).

Ensuite, on comprend rapidement ce que signifie « démocratie » :

All other aid, including economic assistance and support for democracy, is subject to the department’s certification that Egypt will continue to adhere to the Camp David peace treaty with Israel. In that regard, Mrs. Clinton said on Tuesday that there was “no indication” that Egypt’s military or its new political leaders, led by the party of the Muslim Brotherhood, intended to renege on the treaty.

Ainsi, si les Égyptiens décidaient démocratiquement de ne pas adhérer au traité de Camp David, les Américains considéreraient qu’ils ne sont pas, hum, démocratiques. On ne peut mieux expliciter la politique américaine dans la région : la « démocratie », c’est quand les dirigeants arabes protègent Israël contre les aspirations légitimes de leurs peuples.

Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is #SOPA « Steve Blank
►http://steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why-the-movie-industry-cant-innovate-and-the-result-is-sopa

The U.S. State Department has been championing the Internet Freedom initiative across the world. Secretary of State Clinton said, “…when ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled, and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us.”
It’s too bad the head of the #MPAA – an ex Senator - made a mockery of her words when he wondered “why our online censorship can’t be like China?”
We wonder, “Why can’t the film industry innovate like Silicon Valley?”

#internet #hadopi #censure #politique #innovation

Secretary Clinton Visits with Aung San Suu Kyi | Flickr : partage de photos !
►http://www.flickr.com/photos/eapmediahub/6441370575

Travel Diary : Secretary Clinton Travels to South Korea and #Burma | U.S. Department of State Blog
►http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/travel_diary_clinton_rok_burma
In Blog4Burma ce soir.

Les deux plus grandes tragédies pour la politique au Moyen Orient, selon Bill Cliton (attention, ça ne s’invente pas) :
►http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4126490,00.html

Yearning for leaders of the past, Clinton said, “The two great tragedies in modern Middle Eastern politics, which make you wonder if God wants Middle East peace or not, were Rabin’s assassination and Sharon’s stroke.”

Le reste de l’article est un condensé du révisionnisme sioniste habituel.

Clinton menace de sanctionner le Liban s’il ne respecte pas les sanctions contre la Syrie | L’Orient-Le Jour
►http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/724273/Clinton+menace+de+sanctionner+le+Liban+s.html

Évoquant le dossier syrien, M. Mikati devait faire remarquer à la secrétaire d’État américaine que ce qui arrivera à la Syrie ne manquera pas de se répercuter sur l’ensemble de la région.

À son tour, Mme Clinton a tenu à mettre en garde le Liban sur la question des sanctions imposées à la Syrie, lui enjoignant la nécessité de respecter ces sanctions, à défaut de quoi elles risqueraient de s’appliquer au Liban également.

Le secrétaire d’État adjoint pour les Affaires du Proche-Orient, Jeffrey Feltman, avait mis auparavant en garde le Premier ministre Mikati, l’invitant à considérer avec une « grande prudence » l’évolution de la situation en Syrie.

War Room
Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011 21:01 ET
The true cost of George W. Bush’s magical thinking
By Gene Lyons

►http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/08/03/gene_lyons_bush&source=newsletter

The true cost of George W. Bush’s magical thinking

"The mystery has always been why any Democrat would have wanted to follow the catastrophic presidency of George W. Bush. To understand why, it’s necessary to revisit ancient history, specifically 2001. Given today’s TV- and Internet-shortened time horizon, that’s almost like invoking the Napoleonic Wars, but bear with me.

Thanks partly to his skill at “triangulation” — seeking middle ground between left and right — President Clinton left a legacy of prosperity and balanced budgets. Republicans impeached him anyway.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Clinton’s spectacular folly gave GOP hard-liners the excuse they’d spent his entire presidency looking for. That’s not the point. To the Limbaugh-led, Confederate-accented Republican right, all Democrats are illegitimate. President Barack Obama often acts as if he doesn’t understand that.

Anyway, let’s stick to what’s relevant today: taxes, spending and the U.S. economy. According to Congressional Budget Office projections, had the nation maintained the fiscal course the Clinton administration laid out, the national debt everybody rants about would have been retired by 2009.

See, that’s the real cost of George W. Bush’s magical thinking. By any rational accounting, Bush and the GOP Congress that gave him everything he wanted from 2001 to 2007 should be held responsible for the entire $10.6 trillion national debt — along with the $1.3 trillion yearly deficit they handed to Obama, as well as the Wall Street crisis and bank bailouts.

It’s that simple: With no Bush income tax cuts, no unfunded Medicare drug benefit, and no off-budget Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. balance sheet would have been in fine shape for his successor. Then government investment needed to rescue the economy from the doldrums wouldn’t have seemed so alarming."

(...)

“Not for nothing did Obama invoke President Dwight Eisenhower the other day. He’s basically governed as a moderate Republican all along — definitely not the kind of change his starry-eyed followers once believed in, but probably the best they can hope for come 2012.”

* Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist Gene Lyons is a National Magazine Award winner and co-author of “The Hunting of the President” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). You can e-mail Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.com. More: Gene Lyons

Religious paper cuts Clinton from iconic photo – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
►http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/09/religious-paper-cuts-clinton-from-iconic-photo

The ultra-Orthodox Jewish publication ran a doctored copy of the iconic “Situation Room Photo” last Friday – you know, the one taken of President Barack Obama and his national security team during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/05/09/dertzitung.t1larg.jpg

#religion #wtf

How #LCD_Soundsystem Reveals the Evil of #Deregulation | Death and Taxes
►http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/54429/how-lcd-soundsystem-reveals-the-evil-of-deregulation

The “efficient-market hypothesis” says that in this free-market ticket ecosystem, the price of LCD Soundsystem tickets will be determined perfectly by demand. Without regulations to get in the way, the market will move the price of tickets precisely in line with their value—no more, no less (…)

This is essentially the same problem plaguing the financial system and the banking industry. Beginning with Reagan and culminating with Clinton, U.S. financial policy has systematically discarded the regulations that were put in place after the Great Depression to keep markets in line with the interest of people.

#capitalisme #musique

Est-ce la queue qui remue le chien ? Le New York Times est heureux de vous faire savoir que c’est #Israël qui décide que les #États-Unis doivent continuer à verser 1,5 milliard de dollars à l’#Égypte.

Clinton Calls for ‘Orderly Transition’ in Egypt - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/world/middleeast/31diplo.html

Mrs. Clinton confronted one such ripple effect when she said on the ABC News program “This Week” that the United States did not intend to cut military aid to Egypt, despite the White House announcement Friday that the nearly $1.5 billion in annual assistance was under review.

The prospect of a cutoff of aid alarmed the Israeli government, an Israeli official said, because it is linked to the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel and could alienate the Egyptian military, which Israel views as a stabilizing force in an otherwise deteriorating situation.

L’équipe du prix Nobel de la paix œuvre, à nouveau, pour la paix.

Clinton : “Washington Opposes Security Council Move Against Israeli Settlement Activities” - International Middle East Media Center
►http://www.imemc.org/article/60475

U.S Secretary Of State, Hilary Clinton stated Thursday that the White House rejects the proposal that was submitted by the Palestinian Authority to the United Nations in an attempt to condemn Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories.

#Israël #Palestine #Hilary_Clinton #États-Unis #ONU